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- Comment on Come one come all, it's time to unblock !conservative@lemmy.world and bring your best memes of conservatives! 1 day ago:
when in reality it results in murderous regimes that oppress their people, their neighbors and everyone else there is to oppress.
Huh TIL that the USA is communist.
- Comment on Come one come all, it's time to unblock !conservative@lemmy.world and bring your best memes of conservatives! 1 day ago:
Communists aren’t destroying the US government as of now. Unless you consider the Russian assets on the right as communists?
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 3 days ago:
Only if you have the proper high btu burner
- Comment on Every package you receive has the chance of being a bomb 1 week ago:
Plenty of random innocent people have died from package bombs. All it takes is for someone to hate your boss / your neighbor / someone unrelated with the same name. Or just, someone unhinged
- Comment on If a mysterious force secretly changed EVERY clock worldwide one minute forward, how long would it take until people notice, and how would people/governments react? 1 week ago:
So do we need to take time dilation into account?
1 minute forward in all reference frames? Is there an 81pSec difference in the time jump?
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
The less profitable we are, the less they’ll bother us.
- Comment on US Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseek 3 weeks ago:
And that’s exactly why they want to stop it
- Comment on German Power Slips Below Zero as Negative-Price Phenomenon Grows 1 month ago:
But, but, AI!
- Comment on The best “I told you so”s are the ones where you never have to say “I told you so” because the other person clearly knows you told them so 1 month ago:
Worst-case ontario
Passed with flying carpets
It’s not rocket appliances
It’s just water outta the fridge
- Comment on flouride 3 months ago:
0.08mg per half cup serving, but may vary depending on water used.
10mg is the accepted daily upper limit. So 62.5 cups of oatmeal to reach that max safe limit.
Acute poisoning symptoms may appear as low as 10-15 mg/kg, lethal dose might be 32-64 mg/kg.
So 200 to 400 cups of oatmeal per kg you weigh for a lethal dose.
- Comment on Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating 3 months ago:
Patents shouldn’t exist! Mostly.
- Comment on You Pay For It, We Own It - Sony's $7.9B Lawsuit 3 months ago:
I think that’s called conversion. Or unjust enrichment.
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 3 months ago:
“Thermal Noise” is a phenomenon where everything makes EM noise, just from thermal energy.
If you were to put such a TV in a faraday cage, with an RF termination, you would see something similar. Because noise is inherently part of the circuitry and amplifiers.
- Comment on ChatGPT-4o Guardrail Jailbreak: Hex Encoding for Writing CVE Exploits. 3 months ago:
Must be a hallucination
- Comment on Starlink kit found amid wreckage of Russian drone 5 months ago:
Obscufating the location of the starlink unit isn’t possible. It inherently requires positioning to function at all.
Starlink uses phased array antennas for beamforming, both on the earth base station and on the satelite station. That means the antenna is very directional by using some complex math and multiple tranceivers feeding an antenna array.
That means the satelite must know where you are within like 10s of km. Otherwise it can’t tell where to beam your data.
It’s kinda exactly why cell towers can locate you. And why you can’t avoid that.
- Comment on Starlink kit found amid wreckage of Russian drone 5 months ago:
- Comment on Starlink kit found amid wreckage of Russian drone 5 months ago:
Look at this article from March 2024: …house.gov/…/cnbc-house-democrats-probe-spacex-ov…
In a statement on Thursday, the congressmen wrote, “Russia’s use of Starlink satellite terminals would be in contravention of U.S. export controls that prohibit Russia from acquiring and utilizing U.S.-produced technology.”
So the equipment has to fall into the wrong hands, through a somehow compromised supply chain. Maybe that could happen without starlink knowing, but they really should have figured that out in march. They should have very easily identified the units that were potentially compromised by auditing shipping logs.
Not only did the supply chain have to be compromised, but also the subscription and payments system… How did they not catch it on the subscription payment side? Now in addition to a compromised supply chain, a financial institution was compromised? At the least, they didn’t do their due dilligance in customer verification.
How could russia have set up the equipment without some level of development and testing? Geolocation should have given that development away.
Now, could spaceX do something more about this ? Most likely. But that is resources you need to put on this, which is not profitable.
Yeah good point, that’s called “negligence”. Not doing due dilligance or taking the necessary steps to avoid breaking the law, because it isn’t profitable, isn’t a valid legal defense.
It really would have been as simple as geofencing against devices that weren’t preauthorized or whitelisted.
- Comment on Intel releases one last microcode update to fix high-end desktop CPU crashes 5 months ago:
That’s the beauty of intermittent problems!!
You can’t prove they aren’t there, only that they are, or, that you fail to reproduce.
- Comment on The phrase "Pics or it didn't happen" is largely meaningless now that AI is a thing. 5 months ago:
When we get brain implants to supplement memory, it’s all over for us
- Comment on Secret calculator hack brings ChatGPT to the TI-84, enabling easy cheating 5 months ago:
Oh I would have been so pissed. I was programming on my calculator 24/7 instead of my classes.
I wrote a sudoku “editor”
I put that in quotes because I had a grid that could be navigated, arrows moved, storing the numbers, had number entry down, and then I learned the hard way what p vs np is.
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 5 months ago:
Argument!
- Comment on How can I get a screw like this out? 6 months ago:
A dab of super glue in the screw hole, find a screw driver you don’t really care about, add a drop of superglue accelerator
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 6 months ago:
It isn’t that AI will have replaced us in 24 months, it’s that we will be enslaved in 24 months. Or in the matrix. Etc.
- Comment on In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past 6 months ago:
My absolute favorite is when I asked copilot to code a UI button and it just pasted “// the UI element should do (…) but instead it is doing (…)” a dozen times.
Like, clearly someone on stackoverflow asked for help, got used for training data, and confused copilot
- Comment on Peloton announces $95 “used equipment activation fee” 6 months ago:
I don’t get what it has to do with copyright?
It’s as simple as they built the equipment to require an app. And it needs the cloud, so its either accept the license or stop using the hw.
It’s happening everywhere.
- Comment on Infamous $30 Logitech F710 called out in $50M lawsuit over Titan sub implosion 6 months ago:
There’s going to be no external interference when you’re under water. Sea water makes an excellent em shield
- Comment on There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent 7 months ago:
I’m not convinced there was an issue with 12th gen. I had instability with the 12900k until the latest bios update.
- Comment on Apple Foldable iPhone Launch Faces Delay Until 2026, Faces Design Roadblocks 7 months ago:
I bet the screen is less prone to scratching from anything in your pockets
- Comment on If a tunnel boring machine were installed facing downward in a cemetery, you wouldn't need to expand the cemetery 7 months ago:
Or a catacomb
- Comment on LAPD warns residents after spike in burglaries using Wi-Fi jammers that disable security cameras, smart doorbells 7 months ago:
Physical locks and keys are also easy to bypass.